Recent content by rabidsheep

This kind of thinking is very misguided, imho. The fact is that the winner of the league isn't going to be determined by skill or analysis. It's going to be luck. After lurking here for over a decade I've discovered that I'm pretty good at fantasy football, but when I get my head together with...

I've gone from 18 players to 26 and currently sitting at 22. And that's just this morning....

Awesome. Thanks so much!

Not crazy at all. If you want to win you need to underpay for points, and unproven players can be a way to do that. The only part of your numbers that concern me is the 2 kickers. The prevailing wisdom seems to be 3 kickers is the way to go, at least that's what I've seen in these threads...

Last year I wanted to be sure not to worry about the defense slot and my other selections allowed me the budget to roll with 2 top Ds so I went with Seattle and San Fran. I didn't expect them to be the top producers (since D is notoriously difficult to predict) but I hoped they would be...

Just when I thought my man crush on you couldn't get any bigger.....

The biggest lesson I've had reinforced after over-analyzing last year's stats is the criticality of bye weeks. I really thought I had a well balanced team. I looked at matchups for each position each week, did stats on the last 5 years at each position and more. The last 2 days before lock in I...

The ByePocalypse has arrived. 121.45 with only both of tonight's kickers -7.5 to play. Looks like I won't be around to see if I can make it without a QB at week 12. Definitely need to run a third defense next year, and tight end ended up hurting me as well with Thomas on bye and Cameron...

So I've been slicing my roster and production a few different ways, and one thing I'm interested in is the amount of dead money on my roster each week. As we look at roster size and production I'm not at all convinced that there's any useful objective measure, but I think looking at dead money...

I'll be without a QB week 12, and now I can pretend that it was caused by Vick's injury and not because I was an idiot and selected 2 QBs with the same bye week (Wilson). Yay! This week was interesting, as I almost popped 200 and would have made it even if I didn't have Calvin. Unfortunately...

Good riddance. He's been the only dead weight on my roster for this contest. Can't complain too much since I picked up Garcon as well based on the idea that RG3 would be more in tune with both this year. 1/2 isn't horrible.

It's good to see you still hanging out QG. I hit 185 this week with AD still to play. Calvin showed up again for me this week and a great week from Russel Wilson. I continue to be surprised by the value brought by kickers. Vinatieri outscored McCoy, Bush, Moreno, and Boldin (who all counted...

If it makes you feel any better I made some literal last minute changes to my roster (picked up Moreno and Boldin which were great decisions) and ended up with Vick and Russel. That wouldn't be bad if they didn't share a bye week :( Not an early bye either, so even if I make it through my...

I think you're exactly right. Most of the powerhouse players including Peyton, AD, Calvin etc. had down weeks and we had two teams on bye. Barring some superstar performances tomorrow night it looks like a pretty low cut.

I couldn't disagree with you any more. If anything, I wish MORE people posted in this thread, even if it was about their individual rosters. I find it fascinating seeing what choices people made and how their teams are performing. While I seem to agree with you that more information/strategy is...